Not allowed to create link on mounted FAT32 partition

[Brian Richardson]

Because FAT32 partitions don't support symbolic links.

On 10-Jul-04, at 3:20 PM, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - 
Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a FAT32 partition mounted as /mnt/windows/D as per the below 
> fstab statement:
>
> /dev/hdd1               /mnt/windows/D          vfat 
> users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0
>
> It's mounted at startup.
>
> This mount allows ordinary users to read and write to the partition. 
> But I've run into a problem when trying to make a link to a folder  
> (right click in Nautilus and select "make link") - then I get an error 
> message "Operation not permitted while creating a link..."
>
> This problem also manifests itself when I run Azureus (Bittorrent 
> client) - it tries to allocate space on the volume before starting 
> download of a file and fails with the same "operation not permitted" 
> message.
>
> Why am I allowed to write to the partition but not create a link?
>
> thanks,
>
>
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Brian Richardson
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